Episode 133: Spotting Croczilla, The Most Expensive Grilled Cheese, & the Rise and Fall of Tupperware

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, it's me Kathleen Madigan. Welcome to Madigan's Pubcast. You grab yourself a drink, pull up a bar stool, let's talk about what's been going on. Tarmites! Welcome to Episode 133, Mike. Pub is open, so many things. So many things.

[00:00:33] On a week I didn't even work in so many things. Just first of all I had to have no queen updates. Nobody was doing nothing. Reba finished a big tour. Congratulations, Reba. And, um, I think there was...

[00:00:47] Oh, Tay-Tay's breakup. Everybody's just saying, I hope she's not too sad to do her shows. Oh, I think she'll be fine. I think she will be absolutely fine. She got the love song out. She got the love song out? Yep.

[00:01:03] Well, I'm going to read in a minute, speaking of music, the people that were at Coachella because the list makes me laugh because I only know two people.

[00:01:10] I don't have like hundreds. I'm not going to read all the hundreds, but my friend Bronson went and I haven't gotten the review yet. I'm never going to the desert outside for any reason. And even if Stevie Nicks was there, I am not going outside.

[00:01:22] I will go inside in Palm Springs or Jesus in the desert in a casino. But I am not going to... And Bronson's whiter than me and I totally didn't care as out of like his mother. I'm like, take sunblock, stay hydrated.

[00:01:33] I said, because if you get sick and die out there, I'm not coming to get your body. I will not come to the desert. And I will not tell your family in St. Louis where you are. I'll keep it a secret. Anyway... Bring me back a Bjork issue.

[00:01:46] There's a beginning. He was so excited about Bjork. I'm like, oh. It looked her up. She's my age. And I'm like, well good for her. Your headlining where I don't know what spot she had in the lineup.

[00:01:59] And then I had to look up her music and I'm like, yeah, I don't really know any of these by heart. No, like I vaguely remember... I know she's super weird. She's from Iceland. I mean, you're going to be probably a little left field.

[00:02:11] I mean, I thought she was different and creative, but anyway... Human behavior. Human behavior? All right. Paddles votes for that. Speaking of paddles, you got a coosie and it said, I'm on it and do it. It says it's in the schnotes.

[00:02:30] This is from a termite that came in the mail since I had a Joe in a week. This is from Becca and this is a big foot pillow and he's carrying a box of wine and then he's going to the house

[00:02:43] and I'm going to put it next to my Loch Ness Monster pillow. Nice. Thank you, Becca. Yes. We'll toss that over there for now. And then... You want to coosie? Here. Oh, perfect throw. That was not easy. Then somebody made this card, Mama Termite. It's from Tracy.

[00:03:03] Oh, her 18-year-old daughter, Maggie drew the termite. Well, it's better than anything I've come up with for shirts or anything. Totally. She became a fan after hearing the joke about the post office. I still love the post office and I still love my joke

[00:03:18] and I stand by that joke. You tell me who else would do what they do for whatever a stamp is, not what, 56 cents? I don't even know. 56, 59. It should be more. It should be. It should be like 10 bucks to take something to Alaska? Yeah.

[00:03:34] She's a rule mail carrier in South Bend, Indiana. I also do buying and reselling online at the side hustle. I love the pubcast. 58 cents. 58 cents. Okay. See, I appraise it. She got me some big-foot earrings. They're adorable.

[00:03:51] The show wouldn't be the same without you paddles this lady says. Yeah. Even though they can't see you. She gave me that and then these little, look at these little tiny shoes. They say baby shoe mat again. I know when they're green like leprechaun shoes. Yeah.

[00:04:07] I don't know where I want to put these somewhere downstairs. I like that it's, wow, I did that. Sorry. One mistake. One mistake. Anyway, thank you. I'll do Tracy and back up.

[00:04:26] Now, what do we, let's do what we're trying before we're going to talk about what we're drinking. Okay. Because it could be controversial, which is something I am not usually, but people have asked what I think.

[00:04:37] So I'll say what I think first we're going to be trying something my mom will not be able to wait to get to. It's Hershey's popping candy with white cream and sprinkles. So it's like a Hershey bar. Yeah. It's gross. It's like, bad white chocolate.

[00:04:59] Like they went for going for, they were going for white chocolate and that Hershey's that one's a miss. You'll laugh about that a year from now at another meeting. Remember when we did the candy, the cake that was candy that wasn't? Yeah. Who did we fool? Yeah.

[00:05:14] Because I was in St. Louis for the wedding, I did get baby back rib potato chips. Hers, that's from Pennsylvania, but they make them and they sell them at every gas station in St. Louis. They're good. Yep. They're a little sweeter than normal barbecue chips. A little sweeter.

[00:05:34] Did they taste like St. Louis ribs? Not really. No, they want them to taste like St. Louis ribs, but not really. This is Durkie's famous sauce, sandwich and salad. It's a creamy deli spread that goes great with sandwiches and sliced meats. Adds that's the typical salt potato salad.

[00:05:50] Makes for a tangy sauce for meats and vegetables. This is from Iowa. But yeah. Sweet probably. It looks sweet. Yeah. Let's see. Durkie. It looks sweet. Durkie. It looks sweet. Because it's thick. Wow. No. No, it's too tangy. That makes Miracle Whip seem calm. Oh wow.

[00:06:19] It's very, very tangy. Yeah. Midwest people like it tangy. So sorry we're striking out on all that. I don't usually get into these subjects, but I'll just say it a little bit. What are you drinking? I'm drinking Bud Light. Yeah. And guess what?

[00:06:35] People might be upset about Bud Light, but I guarantee you had no effect on the wedding I attended Saturday night. Every single Bud Light in the city of St. Louis was drank by me and my cousins. Who got married?

[00:06:46] My cousin married one of her boys, one of the Miku boys got married. Joey and he has a wonderful wife in Elise now as of now. And this is, it was at this really cool place and it started at 530 and I was looking at the

[00:07:02] weather reports going, hmm, okay. And then I, this is all my dad kept saying, uh, has anyone found out why we're not in a church? Nope, dad. Nobody knows. Nobody cares. They're the children. They're hipsters. Aren't they both Catholic? Yep. Is a priest coming here?

[00:07:21] He couldn't get over it. No. I'm like, dad, not everybody's going to get married in a church anymore. You got, and then he was watching the ceremony and sometimes he cocks his mouth like in this way where he's like super lawyer concerned.

[00:07:34] And I think, I said to my brother, I go, he's just sitting there wondering if any of this is legal. And he was wondering, I could tell you the thoughts were during through his mind. Well now, is this man that did all that, uh, professional?

[00:07:46] Are they really married? He was very confused. I'm like, dad, let it go. Some of the children and I loved it because they had a buffet, no sit down dinner bullshit. They got sugar fire barbecue, one of the best in St. Louis. They have mac and cheese.

[00:08:01] It was just, uh, the ceremony lasted less than 10 minutes. It was fantastically short. Yeah. So that was less, but then about so about an hour after being there, um, I was up by the front bar, which is by the front of the building, which is all glass windows.

[00:08:22] And the sky was turning green and purple and lightning, lightning bolts. And my cousin Mary comes up and she's like, yeah, this is looking kind of crazy. And Patrick could stand in there and Pat goes, you know what guys, maybe we shouldn't be standing by the glass.

[00:08:35] And I go, oh, Pat, if we're not standing here, how are we going to see the lightning? Come on. Put your thinking cap on Pat. I said, I'm not moving till I hear siren. Well, literally I don't even know. Maybe less than five minutes later.

[00:08:49] One had touched down. Yeah, it wasn't a watch. It was a warning, but you could tell by this guy. So then we had to get all everybody downstairs and there thankfully there was a basement and it was pimped out with a pool table, twister and everybody

[00:09:04] goes, I'm not going down there unless there's a bar. Oh my God. They said they would bring beer down there. Well, what about my one cousins like, yeah, but what if you're drinking vodka? Is anybody bringing that down? I don't know.

[00:09:14] We will tip somebody super great money for a hundred bucks for you to go get so and so of vodka. We were down there like for an hour though. And that's, I put a video of my mom doing her tornado dance because I told

[00:09:27] her you got to turn that frown around and you get happy in them same shoes you got that in because she's getting all cranky. I want to leave. Well now it's not the time, mom. There's a tornado outside. Well, I can't sit down here all night. Really?

[00:09:40] Where do you have to be? Where is it you need to be right now at age 81 that you need to get out of the basement? You're not leaving this basement. Just shut up and start dancing. So she did it so that I filmed that.

[00:09:51] No, it was a ton of, ton of, ton of fun. So we did drink literally all the blood light. Now full disclosure, my entire family has worked at the Anihaz and Bush Brewery for years and years and years. They were pipe fitters. Thank you for your service.

[00:10:06] It was their full time gigs. My uncle Neil, my uncle Jim, my dad was down there for a while. Everybody. So I like, I know they're not, I know Anihaz and Bush is owned by Yenbev. I understand that. I got you. I got everybody.

[00:10:24] They are so many bumps along the way. So the can, now you'll see I have a, I call these coddles, can bottles. And I don't like them as much as a can but Ron White did point out a

[00:10:39] super duper feature that they should be using in their ads. When you have the screw on lid, if you're outside the wind won't flat your beer. Oh yeah. So whatever. My coddle has a St. Louis Blues blue note on it. Right. They did not make the playoffs.

[00:10:56] They did not make the playoffs but they still had some of those beers left. Now if you're not up to date and has a Bush put a trans woman on a can. This is how not connected I am.

[00:11:11] I watched the video of the trans woman and thought that was the lady who had made the decision. I thought that was the VP of Bud Light and I'm like, she's so young. Oh my God. She must be super duper smart.

[00:11:26] But I'm like, wait, the video is pretty funny for what it was but they put the, the trans woman Dylan, somebody on but then who made that decision? That's what I'm. This is where my Midwest University of Missouri or Southern Illinois.

[00:11:47] I went to both just general school people get mad at the at the well anything. Yeah, we're easy to fire up but mostly the elite, the Ivy League schools quite frankly. The woman who made this decision. Our name is Alyssa Heinerschneid. She's 39 years old.

[00:12:11] She went to Harvard and Wharton. You are representing Bud Light. When I hear Harvard, I don't think Bud Light. You need somebody from the University of Kansas or I don't know Iowa, Minnesota. It doesn't have to just be the Midwest but it needs to be.

[00:12:27] Harvard all I think I don't even think beer, not even IPAs. But also how hooked up was this chick?

[00:12:35] This is where the Midwest people get well not just the non-Idi League people get a little upset because she's 39 years old and she already had some high up job at General Mills. She has a $7 million apartment in Manhattan. 39. 39.

[00:12:53] And they gave her the job to make these kind of decisions. Now, I'll tell you, they should give it to my cousin Maureen. That's what they should do. They should have a bunch of them. I'm talking about making these decisions.

[00:13:09] Because she said, I had a really clear job when I took over Bud Light. How do you just get to be the VP of anything when you're 39? Somebody's parents call somebody's parents. I don't believe that you, I don't believe that. I think it's all a hookup.

[00:13:27] Bud Light has been in decline for a very long time. Here's the thing. Bud Light, it has a Bush made Mic Ultra. Mic Ultra ate Bud Light. Every beer has a strong decade. I remember when Micolob, straight Micolob, it was in a brown bottle with gold foil.

[00:13:43] That was super popular for like five years. Then they made Micolob light and it had silver foil on the brown bottle. And then everybody went to that. It's like a rotation. I mean it could go all the way back to Papsford Ribbon or Stag or Hams.

[00:13:55] Once you make another beer, Bush Light holds its own. Well, there's the funniest t-shirt ever. It just says Iowa on the front and then the back of the t-shirt is that the answer, it's a Ray Gunn shirt.

[00:14:09] The answer to who drank all the Bud Light, all the Bush Light Iowa. Missouri loves it too. It's not even available everywhere. It doesn't matter. It's a brand that holds on its own. It's like merch.

[00:14:19] Just make this much and then you can count on these three states to drink it. You don't need anything more. But anyway, she was saying that you're not attracting young drinkers to come drink this brand of beer, meaning Bud Light.

[00:14:35] It's like, she said this, it's like we need to evolve and elevate this incredibly iconic brown. And my, what I brought to that belief was, okay, what does evolve and elevate mean? It means inclusivity and being shifting the tone.

[00:14:47] It means having a campaign that's truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter and feels to men and women. She said that, she said Bud Light had been kind of fratty. I agree. A lot of guys in khakis that would look like a lot of my cousins,

[00:15:04] kind of out of touch humor. I do think it got a little 15 year old boyish there for a while. And it was really important that we had another approach. Now I don't, I am fine with the trans person being on the camp. I don't understand.

[00:15:18] I'm with Howard Stern. I don't understand why kid rock would be so angry that you would go get a machine gun. Well, I'm sure he has a lot of machine guns and shoot all your own beer. That's your beer. Just drink it.

[00:15:32] And anyone even that could have shot. There were a lot of beers left on that thing. But I mean, that was something he did that day. You know what? This can makes me so mad.

[00:15:41] I mean, like if this can, if they had, I don't know, somebody who had hurt people, like Charles Manson on it. But even St. Louis people would be like, well, can we just pour it in the cup? I mean, I mean, he's dad, right?

[00:15:55] Charles Manson like it won't do it anymore. Right. But she's a Wharton and Harvard school graduate. Her jobs include General Mills and Johnson Johnson, which she was the associate brand manager of Listerine. I just, I don't picture this lady in a $7 million apartment drinking Bud Light.

[00:16:14] I think that was a mistake on the airport to hire this person and her decision. The decision maker. Yeah, not the trans person. I could care less. That lady was funny enough. I thought, well, I thought it was a CEO. That's what I thought.

[00:16:29] That's how good she is. Gorgeous. I just don't understand why you would get that mad at a can, like something on the can. But whatever the people. I think Bud Light is not facing the issue that Mick Ultra ate you. That's what happened to Bud Light.

[00:16:47] You need to make Bud Light light. Okay. And then go one step further than Mick a little ultra and then you'll get everybody on board here if they want to something lighter than Mick Ultra. You guys screwed yourself. You made the perfect summer beer. Yep.

[00:17:03] And then everybody's like, I'm good. But let him come back. Yeah. And then there's also steps. If you're going to put the trans woman totally fine with me, I know a lot of the people don't like it. Whatever you should have put a bunch of young people. Yeah.

[00:17:17] If we're going for young. Everybody. You want the children. Beer is for everyone. Beer is for everyone. Well, I think the children should chime in. Who else should be on there? I'm already on board. I'll drink all beer. Right. So I'm not need.

[00:17:33] You don't need to trick me into. And I do think a Bud Light. I think of me and my cousins like we're not young. So how do we get well, Mike? I mean, a lot of the youngsters, I think like the like the IPAs. I love one.

[00:17:48] I love one IPA, but maybe two, but not more than that is too heavy. And you feel drunk and stuff in the middle of the day. Then I need a nap. What's the frog campaign? The frog campaign. How old are you? That is like 100 years old.

[00:18:04] Well, I did like the frogs stick with the Clydesdales. But I get what this lady is saying as much as I do not think this lady should have had this job. This Alyssa Heinrich Neid.

[00:18:13] And then they found all these pictures of her acting like a frat person at Harvard like slamming beers out of beer bongs. So okay.

[00:18:22] I just think if we're going to do the trans woman, why not open it up to all kinds of young people and then avoid the controversy? If you're Bud Light, I don't care that she's on the kid. Totally fine with me.

[00:18:38] But you're going to cause a lot of trouble. Now maybe that's what this lady wanted. Maybe she wanted all the chitter chatter. Maybe she wanted all the controversy. Maybe Kid Rock and those people played right into her hand.

[00:18:48] But I don't think so because when they say I won't buy it, I tend to believe them. But you weren't going for somebody who is my age. You're not going for us anyway. So anyway. Well, they came back with a Clydesdale ad yesterday on other socials.

[00:19:06] They're trying to go backwards to the client and I love the client sales more than anything and the dog on the fire deal. The Dalmatian. But that it's because they don't have anything else right now. That kind of takes away any positivity.

[00:19:19] The positivity of having the trans lady. Well, no, I'm not saying she's off the cans. It was just another ad they put on Instagram and all that. It's very sentimental. Yeah. Hey, remember we have ponies.

[00:19:30] We have super pretty ponies because the Budweiser guy, whoever came out and apologized for it all. Like they have lost like five billion. The trans person got hired. Brandon Whitworth is the CEO. Well, he had to come out and apologize. And they've lost like five billion dollars.

[00:19:49] He didn't mean to divide the country. No, he did not mean to divide the country. Right. But he should have thought about it. Why would she turn in this idea? So well, you thought I should have thought, okay, we can do that. But let's make it all inclusive.

[00:20:03] I think Dylan should have been given a class down to ride. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I don't know. But now that I would have a long, long hard talk with a licorice night, Heiner Schneid and say beer is for everyone.

[00:20:25] And then I would have Trixie, the drag queen come in. Trixie Mattel, yes. Trixie Mattel come in and have a look. Now she's not trans but the drag queens too. Why not put the drag queens on the cans? Yes. Right. Yes.

[00:20:38] Mrs. Richfield, if you don't know Drag Queens, go look up one of the funniest acts I've ever seen. Because she really has a whole hour. She pretends he pretends she has Mrs. Richfield that she was in Minnesota.

[00:20:49] There's this, I don't even know if it's a real town called Richfield, Minnesota. She was the beauty queen of that area. It's the funniest act ever. It was, yeah.

[00:20:58] Anyway, so, yeah, they should have, if you're going to piss off that many people, you need to have an immediate backup plan. If you want to be risky and dicey, then you need a backup plan. And it's not, do we have a client still commercial from 1984 about Christmas?

[00:21:14] Shout out to Dylan. Yeah, Dylan, I would, yeah, shout out to, the situation just, it just amazes me that I'm not going to be a good person. It just amazes me the shit people care about. Yeah.

[00:21:25] As long as you tell me that beer isn't flat or poisoned, I don't really care. Is it cold? Yeah, if it's hot, I don't want it. I don't even think I would have looked at the can. No. Yeah, I just, okay. So we're moving on.

[00:21:41] Shout out to Dylan. Shout out to Dylan. And I think Alyssa Heiner Schneid should have had a backup plan. And I would have her in my office right now going, now if this was going to backfire, what were you thinking?

[00:21:51] What would you do if you're me and right now I've lost $5 billion? Now it's all temporary too. People get real mad about this shit for like a half a second. And then you know, they'll be fine but anyway. We're out of ultraman.

[00:22:09] Well here's the thing, Bud Light, simmer down on creating new brands. You're eating your own. My God, rest on your laurels for a minute, okay? And you want to bring Bud Light back? You got to make it Bud Light Light. Bud Light. Light or Bud Light? Beer. Beer.

[00:22:26] It's for everyone. Beer is for everyone. That's because you're Canadian, though. It's all you people do up there. We're all like that. Okay, so let's move on. Coachella. Oh my God.

[00:22:38] This is going to show you, this is going to be a test to see how old are you people are, okay? The headliners, now I have heard of Bad Bunny. Oh yeah, Bad Bunny. But I don't know why I heard of that.

[00:22:53] He was at some other thing on TV. Black Pink? Never heard of. Black. Frank Ocean, I thought, was Billy Ocean who sang Care-a-boo Queen. Care-a-boo Queen in the sun. And I thought, why do the children care about Billy Ocean? He's got to be 60 something.

[00:23:11] If he's even alive, I don't know. Well, he's not. Frank Ocean is a different man. He is not Billy Ocean. Here's some other high profile sets. So these are the people I'm supposed to know. Rosalia, Jai Paul, Gorillaz with a Z, Boy Genius, Charlie XCX.

[00:23:33] Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's girl. Okay. Kali Yukis? I do know Blink 182. Shut up. Are you kidding? Well, here's the funniest thing. My friend Scott, he's Scott Kennedy. He passed away as a comedian. He was so funny.

[00:23:52] I'm one of my best friends and he loved Blink 182. And he's like, would you please go with me? I said, Scott, I don't want to go to Blink 182. We were like 40. And he goes, come on, come on, come on. It was somewhere in LA.

[00:24:05] And when I got there, they had a parental beer garden. And I said, Scott, I said, is it going to hurt your feelings if I go to the parental beer garden and wait on you like my 15-year-old son? He goes, no, I don't care.

[00:24:17] Once we get in there, it won't even matter that you're there. Go to the beer garden. Have fun. So I went back and forth to the beer garden. I mean, I knew a couple of songs. But I mean, the list... Oh my God. So here's who was...

[00:24:28] Let's just show you. I don't even... It's like I live on a whole different planet. Charlie XCX? Charlie XCX is electropop. Yeah. You just sound like an alien. Right. Well, one time I had a corporate gig somewhere in Florida and I checked into the Ritz Carlton

[00:24:47] because that's where the gig was. And they got me a very nice room there. It was super fancy. The hotel next to it had been abandoned and the pool was empty. And there was a stage set up.

[00:25:00] And about an hour after I got there, there were like 2,000 children in an empty swimming pool with glow sticks and shit. And the music started and I called down to the front desk and I go just out of curiosity. How long is this music going on?

[00:25:15] And the guy goes, it's due to stop on Monday. Yeah. It was Friday. I'm like, oh my God, how does the Ritz not walk over there and unplug all their... It was like electropop. Emo something. It sounded like the same song for two goddamn days. Days.

[00:25:34] Everyone's got glow sticks. They weren't violent. They were seemed under control. It acts a lot of X. Yeah. Here's who was Friday. Over mono, push T, push T, Muna, Magdalena Bay, Eve's tumor. What? Yes. Here's some more. Hold on. Ashneko? Nope. Uncle Waffles? Love it.

[00:26:11] I like the name. Great merch. White Fang, white spelled incorrectly on purpose. The Garden, Jamie Jones. I mean, I will not keep going but I'm just telling you this is like Dennis Cruz plus Paul Dallasine A. I mean, Blondie was there. I know Blondie. She's like 75 years old.

[00:26:35] Blondie is wonderful. They're great. Labyrinth, Chromio, Tail of Us. I'm going to have to ask. I'm going to get a full report from my friend Broughton. A Weekend Pass is $537. A Weekend Pass is $537? That's pretty good. That's just to get him. That's fine.

[00:26:57] You get to see all these people. I mean the problem is you got to know them or you don't have to but I wouldn't be running to a stage to see camel fat. Oh my God. I get it.

[00:27:09] Every stage is named deserts bullshit like Mojave or Yuma or Sonora. I got to go see camel fat at 730 on the Yuma stage. Huh? You don't want to go? Fine paddles. You sit here. Switch your ass off in the desert. I got to Google that. Google.

[00:27:30] It's not spelled that way. It's spelled camel correct way. Fat P-H-A-T. Oh they're cute. How about Los Bitches? Huh? DJ Little Buddha. Uh oh. Alright you get the idea. Can't hold that. We put them in the shorts. Can't hold that. Is it a man or a woman?

[00:27:52] That's two guys. Two guys? Yeah. Okay. They've had nine names before this. Nine names before. Oh that means it's not working. They're from England. It's called progressive house music. Progressive house music. Oh my god. Wow I don't even know what that category is. Moving on. Okay.

[00:28:11] Shout out and congratulations to Mandy Matney, the journalist from South Carolina who she won an award. She has over 100,000 people on her YouTube channel. And when you get to that, you get a little award. I haven't gotten there. No. No? Good for Mandy. Yeah.

[00:28:31] So she said, reminder, you can absolutely stick to your morals, ethics and your boundaries and you can also be successful at the same time. Thanks for this YouTube. We needed it today. Um because she covered the Alex Murdock trial in case you haven't been keeping up with

[00:28:43] all that. Up day! Shut up. Okay our mystery animal in Texas. Can't hold that. It was a camel. No I'm kidding. Uh so if you looked in the schnotes, it was a story last week about this animal. Nobody could identify it. It's a badger. A badger?

[00:28:59] Yeah but I've never seen a badger's face. They're striped like a skunk and then the rest of his body is not striped. Yeah. It's incredible to see an animal in its natural habitat because most of the badgers are nocturnal. That's a big badger. He was huge. Yeah.

[00:29:15] They said it was a big one. Um it was definitely in the park. Everybody says it's all the experts have chimed in. While some may think badgers live in colder climates, the American badger can be found in

[00:29:26] the western and central U.S. according to the National Park Service. Texas wildlife officials say the badger is found throughout Texas except in the farthest eastern edge of the state. While American badgers are not commonly seen in the valley due to their nocturnal behavior

[00:29:41] this is part of their natural range. The black mask in the face and the hint of white line under the neck and the chin and general stocky shape are not common in the wild. And general stocky shape of the animal are dead giveaway.

[00:29:54] So there you go, there's your update. That is a badger. If you've never seen one, I suggest you Google it. Big badger. Yeah, he was a big one. Update! Update. Elizabeth Holmes is going to the pokey pokey pokey.

[00:30:07] The judge denied her request to stay out while she's trying to appeal her case. As I would have too. Yep. A judge on Monday denied. And there are no found or Elizabeth Holmes request to remain free on bail while she

[00:30:20] appeals her conviction on charges of defrauding investors and failed blood testing startup. It was once valued at $9 billion. She will report to the pokey on April 27th. She's been sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison.

[00:30:36] Holmes asked the judge to postpone the sentence while the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reviews her case. The judge concluded that even if Holmes won her appeal to challenge the Theranos technology evidence, it wouldn't result in a reversal or a new trial of all

[00:30:50] the counts she was found guilty of. It's just one count. Right. You don't get to stay free for that. Nope. No. Keep going. Keep lying. She's going to have to go. And he's already on his way. I think he had a report already. If not already, it's very...

[00:31:08] Yeah. Last week. Yeah. So there's your update, Dad. We made it through it. Great. We made it through. Update. Billy McFarland. He's the fire festival guy. I wouldn't attend anything called fire festival because he didn't spell fire right. I'm already out.

[00:31:30] Now I know you're a hipster, fraudster, a fraudster con man, if you will. He says that fire festival two is definitely happening. In a tweet on Sunday, he asked Twitter users why they should be invited to fire festival two.

[00:31:43] Who would respond to that unless you were just being a jackass, which I would be tempted to do. It's finally happening. Then he said, why should you be allowed in? Why should you be allowed out of jail? He hasn't released any other details.

[00:32:01] He's been active in the replies to his tweet about the follow-up festival. The first one didn't happen. The first one did not happen. And the second one he said was going to be virtual. We already covered this on this podcast so I don't know why he's tweeting.

[00:32:14] He's crazy. He tweeted on March 26th. Not that long ago. I owe people $26 million. Here's how I'm going to pay it back. I'm going to spend half my time filming TV shows. The other half I want to focus on what I'm really good at.

[00:32:29] I'm the best at coming up with wild creative, getting talent together and delivering the moment. No, you're the worst. You did not do that. My cousin did a better job in her backyard on Friday night. It was creative.

[00:32:42] She got a lot of people together and delivered a moment. Nice. I'm going to go through this again. We don't need to go through all of this again. That's what he says is happening. Great. On the podcast he said he was going to do another one too.

[00:32:57] That's what we read on here. That was back in November. Update on the Lori Vallow trial. The mother, Lori Vallow Daybell. They started talking about her dead kids. Her and the guy. She walked into court.

[00:33:14] How can you do this when your two kids are dead and you took part in it? She's laughing, throwing her head back. I don't know if she's trying to look crazy, but whatever.

[00:33:24] She had to sit in the courtroom and then they started talking about how they found the kids remains. And then she asked if she could not be in the courtroom anymore. And the judge said no, you're going to sit your ass down and wouldn't let her go.

[00:33:35] So good for him. I have not gone though. Maybe the children know is it on YouTube? I've been gone. I haven't been around to look really, but I'm going to see. She needs a death penalty. I know she's not eligible for the death penalty.

[00:33:49] So you're going to have to take that off your plate. I think we should vote on that. Well, you don't get a vote. You don't live in Idaho. Shut up. I could be in Idaho. You don't even get to decide. I'm still on camel fat. Camel fat.

[00:34:04] Do they have any hits? No, not in Idaho. That's our update section. Holy shit, they found it. A secret 1500 year old tunnel underground tunnel with mosaics and a Roman statue were found in St. Pauli to toast church. It's hard to say. It's in Turkey. Yeah. Polly.

[00:34:28] It toast church. A previously unknown underground tunnel estimated to be about 1500 years old has been on earth during an ongoing archaeological excavation in 1500 year old St. We'll call him St. Polly church in Istanbul. The church was an ancient Byzantine church in Constantinople.

[00:34:47] Now is Istanbul, Turkey built by noble woman. Oh, a woman, Anika Juliana granddaughter of Valentinian the third. Who knows these people? Who's name is known from an illuminated manuscript dated 512 while we are really going back. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:35:08] It will St. Polly was an ancient Roman saint Christian tradition states that he was a wealthy Roman army officer, the first martyr in Armenia. Okay. In recent days, excavation work carried out by the Istanbul Metropolitan municipality teams has been a success.

[00:35:29] They have they've got the passageway they've already unearthed 20 meters 65 feet from a different passage the underground passage which contains mosaic and stone inlays has impressed researchers with a carved marble blocks. Wow.

[00:35:43] Can you imagine if you just found that you're like holy shit and there's all these mosaics on the road. Holy shit I found it. They sure did. They it survived all the earthquakes. This church, the church no longer exists. It's just remains of the church.

[00:35:58] It was built in 520 between 524 and 527. It remains an important place shedding light on the important period in Byzantine history. There you go. Sounds pretty cool. I want to go to Istanbul. Lewis went and said it was awesome. It's really fun.

[00:36:17] Yeah, I've never I never thought about it till he went. I don't even remember why he went. I think just curiosity killed the cat. This place market. Holy shit. They found it. I didn't even know this was possible.

[00:36:32] Rare diamond within a diamond is unearthed in India and named the beating heart. A unique diamond within a diamond has been unearthed according to a company in India, one of the rarest in history which comes when it comes to such stones.

[00:36:51] They named it beating heart and said it consists of a diamond piece with a smaller freely moving piece trapped inside. The stone was originally found in the rough in October last year by the diamond manufacturer that operates from Surman and Mumbai. Hold please.

[00:37:11] The Gem and Jewelry Export Promotion Council set up by the Indian government said the beating heart joins a little group of similar natural diamonds such as the Matroska diamond from Siberia, which was recorded in 2019.

[00:37:25] The authenticity of the stone was confirmed via further analysis using optical and electron microscopes. You can see it. It's really weird. I've certainly never seen anything like the beating heart during my last 30 years in the diamond sector.

[00:37:41] Samantha Sibley said using the expertise of De Beers group we can shed light on the formation of this structure under natural of this natural specimen and share these insights with a wider community of diamond professionals. The rare diamond has etched features visible on both sides.

[00:37:55] They don't say how much it's worth though they say it's priceless but come on everything's got a price we know that. The 800 million two in one jewel was said to be priceless and the only such discovery in the world.

[00:38:10] I don't know. Somebody will buy it. Some Elon or somebody will. Shitton them. Elon's a trouble again. Oh my god update update update. I don't even have to print it out because somebody sent it to me on Twitter. Bed Bath and Beyond Stock is at 29 cents.

[00:38:30] That's my business section. I had another business one. I'll get it to you. I'll make sure to keep it the same thing. Yes. It's crazy. Where's my other? Well, I'll get to it but anyway.

[00:38:44] And my friends Bob and Clark they went and Clark got the last set of baking pans at Bed Bath. At Bed Bath we got it's one in California. I'm not sure exactly which one.

[00:38:54] But I'll tell in you and I said are you at one of the going out of business ones? And he said no not yet. It doesn't like. Mine says store closing. Maybe I'll go up there today make a video. Yes. We're moving on to news. Okay.

[00:39:09] This is so great. Did you guys know that in the United States there are feral donkeys? What? Yeah. What did you just say? Feral donkeys. Like in Arizona. Yeah.

[00:39:25] Like I was driving to, well the guy was driving me in the car from the airport to talking stick casino. And I saw a donkey but I didn't see any fences. And I'm like who's donkey is that? Is that belong to someone? He's like no.

[00:39:43] So anyway I got into it and learned that there's feral donkeys. Well anyway, they're so cute they don't do much but apparently they do do something. Here's what they're good for. Feral donkeys are going to be used to fight off wolves in Colorado. What? Yep.

[00:40:02] It seems to me like a bunch of wolves if you got a pack could take down a donkey. But maybe the donkeys are way meaner than we think. I learned about donkeys. I know I'm gonna have to do a deep dive on donkeys.

[00:40:14] As the reintroduction of wolves to Colorado looms, tensions rise between environmentalists and ranchers. Why environmentalists believe that wolves will help restore the ecosystem balance, ranchers fear losing their livestock. Don Giddelson, a Colorado rancher has turned to guard monkeys to protect his cattle from wolves.

[00:40:32] Wolves have been known to attack and kill cattle which is a cause for concern. Giddleton has lost eight cows to wolves and fears that reintroducing wolves to the state could lead to more losses.

[00:40:41] Giddelson Angus and Giddelson Fatally Cattle Company, a ranch in Colorado, they've acquired seven donkeys hoping to make the herd a more challenging target for the wolves. Oh my god, they're gonna use them as the target instead of the cattle. That's not nice.

[00:40:58] They hope that the necked wolf that tries to get close to a cow will meet a hurricane of hooves and donkey teeth. Oh well maybe they can't fight back.

[00:41:06] Guard animals are not a new concept but instead of guard dogs, they've chosen guard donkeys which were considered to be a better choice due to the high cost of food for dogs.

[00:41:15] Now I saw a coyote run through my yard the other day and I wasn't a big fan of that because of the cats. Maybe I'll get a donkey. The 19 deer that lay around in my yard like dogs, I don't think they would care. They don't care about anything.

[00:41:32] It's crazy. Donkeys, these donkeys threaten wolves as they can kick, strike back and bite thus deterring them from attacking the cattle. I mean, wow. Well it's something to think about. Yeah. Feral donkeys have been used to protect livestock in other parts of the world.

[00:41:52] They're now becoming popular choice for ranchers in Colorado. The donkeys are not interested in mixing with the cattle and prefer to stick together thus forming a bomb while helping to protect the cattle from predators. It's a pilot project. We'll let you know how it happened before we start.

[00:42:06] Wow, feral donkeys. Oh my god! A lady! A lady. She photographed a croxilla. Now I've heard of croxilla. It's not a joke. My friend Andrew told me about this and he's always down in the Everglades catching snakes and shit. He loves it.

[00:42:26] I didn't realize that in America you could have, I thought crocodiles were only South American alligators in the United States. I know for a fact I've never seen a crocodile in the United States. I've only seen him at zoos because there's more of a South American deal.

[00:42:38] This past week, Kim Clark, a hobby wildlife photographer came across one of the Everglades most well-known residents, croxilla. The crocodile is estimated to be 14 foot long and is rumored by park staff and tour guides to be the largest in the park.

[00:42:51] Wait till you see the picture of this thing. I mean it looks like a car. It's laying down, it just, you wouldn't even, you might think it was a mound, not except you see the teeth.

[00:43:02] The crocodile was spotted at 9 mile pond in the Everglades National Park, a popular spot for kayaking. Oh my god! And canoeing. Oh yeah there I go to reach for my beer fall out of the canoe. No, no, no. I'm not canoeing with croxilla. It's over 14 foot long.

[00:43:19] Yeah it's the upper limit of what the species can grow to be. South Florida is the only place where American crocodiles and American alligators are known to coexist. According to the Wildlife Commission, the crocodile is an endangered species success story.

[00:43:34] There are numbers of climb from less than 375 to more than 2,000 adult crocodiles in the wild. The species which is now considered threatened is much more elusive than Florida's 1.25 million alligators which can be found in all of Florida's 67 counties. Huh. Yeah, now here's the thing.

[00:43:55] How long with the temperatures rising and then people go global warming but it's so hot out? No, no, no. We're talking about the base temperature of the earth annually is rising by whether it's a half a degree or a degree.

[00:44:09] I think there's going to be alligators in probably Tennessee by the time I'm dead if I live a normal lifespan because they're in the south part of Alabama. So why aren't they just walking up to Huntsville? Walk up to Birmingham.

[00:44:23] Then you're only two hours away from the bottom part of Tennessee. I think it's going to happen. Predictions. I mean, I'm no Baba Vanga but I can tell you that these animals are on the move. Montana. Montana. You think they'll be in Montana?

[00:44:41] No, I'm moving on to my next story. No. I'm just telling you alligators because they can survive. They can survive Charleston winter. They keep their snouts up in case the pond gets frozen and then they can still breathe and then they're like in a suspended state of animation.

[00:44:58] It's very strange if you go sometimes on a golf course, if there's just any ice, you just see it snout sticking out. Well, no, but some days when it's cold and there's still ice. Yeah, I would. Yeah. Do you live in Montana?

[00:45:16] Are you one of the rich people that goes there when you're tired of California? Well, you better be aware of this. Montana becomes the first state to approve a full ban of TikTok. Now, I don't think there's enough children in Montana. And by children, I mean anyone under 30.

[00:45:37] To back lash this in a major way. Listen to this though, because I was like, how can you do that? I mean, forget about the morality of it. Physically, how could you do that? Well, here's what's going to happen.

[00:45:50] Montana has become the first state to approve a bill that would ban TikTok over the possibility that the Chinese government could request American's data from the wild popular video streaming app. Okay, I know this sounds naive and I don't even care.

[00:46:06] But whatever, does the Chinese want to spy on me? You want to watch me try to buy a feral donkey? What do you think that I have that is so valuable? Here, you want me to get a 10-minute set of jokes together? Here, let's open my joke book.

[00:46:21] How do you like my beer stickers? I mean, I don't... Other than stealing your credit cards, info or something, I don't even understand. Spying on what? Do you really want to spy on my nieces all day? You will get real tired of that dance they're making up

[00:46:38] in about 20 seconds. You'll be like, okay girls, that was cute, but let's move on. The GOP-controlled Montana House of Representatives sent the bill Friday to Republican Governor Greg Gianforte. Gianforte, I don't know. Who can now sign it into law?

[00:46:55] The bill makes it illegal to download TikTok in the state with penalties up to 10 grand a day for any entity such as Apple and Google's app stores or TikTok itself that makes the popular video streaming app available. What if I download it in another state and come home?

[00:47:12] Hmm? Hmm? Hmm? If enacted, the ban would start... It would not start till January 2024. Here's your credit card, Billy Ando's Montana, on your iTunes account. Oh, because the credit card? Hmm? Hmm? Hmm? Well you gotta use a credit card that's, you know... Fraudulent. Questionable.

[00:47:37] A federal court challenge from TikTok is expected, well before then likely teeing up a legal bra that supports that the supporters of the law Montana could eventually wind up in front of the Supreme Court. I mean, I can't even believe that this is what we're down to.

[00:47:50] Our Supreme Court's gotta listen to, you know, a fight about TikTok. If the Chinese are spying, I need to understand what is it they think they're getting. You wanna spy on me? I'm afraid you'll be very bored. It will not be a profitable thing for you.

[00:48:09] A TikTok person said that the bill's backers have admitted there's no feasible plan for putting the TikTok ban into place since blocking downloads of apps in any one individual state could almost be impossible to enforce. Right! They said the bill represents the censorship of Montanin's voices.

[00:48:29] We will continue to fight for TikTok users and creators in Montana whose livelihoods and first-of-meme rights are threatened by this egregious government overreach. I don't know. I don't think you can do it. No? I don't think you can do it. They're moving out of them.

[00:48:43] I mean, this is what the word right in... I don't know. Maybe, you know, I'm always open to going, okay, there's a huge piece of the puzzle I'm missing and maybe I'm missing. Are there any termites in Montana? Montana termites? Full-time ones.

[00:49:03] I don't mean the ones at Bebop in and out from Kerala Farminger. Do you want a $214 grilled cheese sandwich? Yes. No! Leave it if I... No! The best grilled cheese are the cheapest ones. I hate it when they're like, oh, we have a grilled cheese sandwich.

[00:49:23] It has grille. Le, le, now! When it comes to the girl Guinness World Records, not all are created equal. Sometimes they're handed out by people who are really... what? Sometimes they're handed out to people who are really large or dogs that are really small.

[00:49:44] Other times of the Guinness World Records, other times... other times recipients need to venture to outer space to qualify. But some just require a lot of cheese, a lot of butter and a little bit of gold. Since 2014, the New York City's New York City Serendipity 3 has laid claim

[00:50:00] to the Guinness World Record for the most expensive grilled cheese sandwich. It costs a whopping $214. Orders for the High Price Coach Essential Grilled Cheese. Normally you have to call 48 hours in advance. They're going to be serving one on Wednesday.

[00:50:15] You could go in on Wednesday and just get one for this reporter to do this on purpose. It's served on made to order French bread, which is made with Dom Perignon Champagne and has edible gold flakes in it. Each sandwich gets roughly

[00:50:30] a half a pound of the rare... I don't even know what this cheese is. Cavaloccavolloa Podilico cheese. Never heard of it. Retails for upwards of $50 a pound. That's because there are only 25,000 cows whose milk is used to make this cheese

[00:50:51] and they only lactate for two months a year. Bored people! The bread is slathered with white truffle butter. I hate all truffle. So now you've really ruined it for me. I know a lot of people like it. And brushed with white truffle oil. Again, vomit.

[00:51:08] Which has gold flakes mixed into it. When the sandwich is ready to be served, it's cut diagonally and each half gets a layer of edible gold across its section. It doesn't end there. Instead a tomato soup, which is my favorite. It's served with a South African lobster

[00:51:25] tomato bisque on the side for dipping. I like just your regular ol... They said it's good. The gold leaf doesn't add anything in terms of flavor, but it's fun over the top. Novel the addition. The bread is great too. But it's the cheese itself that's the star.

[00:51:45] I don't know if you ever want to try it. Go to New York. Call in advance. Two days in advance. Serendipity three. Now we're going to have a little bit of a dinner with Serendipity three. Never heard of it. Here's another one where I just go... Oops, sorry.

[00:52:03] My head hurts right here. My glasses. Oh, it's my glasses. There's like something poking inside of me. This is a California bill that would ban ingredients in popular treats such as Skittles and Sour Patch Kids are moving a step closer to becoming law. If the bill becomes law,

[00:52:22] it will block five chemicals from being used and manufactured in the state. Each of these chemicals is already banned in the EU. Now, I'm not saying they are good for you, but I have never attended a wake and went, oh my God, I didn't hear

[00:52:36] what happened how did Bill die? And like, Sour Patch Kids, he ate like a million of them. And then he ate Skittles and he only ate the ones with the die, the bad die. He died of Skittles. I mean, how much do you have to eat

[00:52:49] for this shit to really be that bad? Now that's not necessarily the healthy. I know Skittles aren't real anything. None of that stuff. This is like when they took away the good McDonald's french fries. They don't have real fruit. And I think anybody over the age of one

[00:53:08] would know that and go, this tastes like some sort of delicious plastic. I did like Skittles. Sour Patch Kids are too sour for me, but the goal is to protect kids and their parents from harmful chemicals. Just remember, my mom is 81. She's eaten every pink or red

[00:53:28] peep that's ever been made on earth and she's fine. They're hoping they ditch the chemicals. I mean, I'm sure it's better for us. It's red three of food die uses some candies. Don't eat the red ones. How about that? Oh, oh no, they're throwing

[00:53:46] Campbell's chunky soup under the raid under the bus too. Sundrop soda? Didn't know we still made that. Sour Patch Hot Tamale Candies. That's my dad's favorite. Oh, delicious. I just, I can't, I don't know. I think we have better things to work on right now. Yeah.

[00:54:05] You know, no, I've just said I've never attended a wake. Too many peeps. What happened? Skittles. Skittles. He loved him. He couldn't put him down. Every morning he'd wake up and he'd have coffee and then a whole bag of Skittles. And then at night, NPR

[00:54:28] moving on has quit Twitter. They were falsely labeled, they say, as a state affiliated media. Oh my God. NPR to me, talk about needing somebody to come in. You got to stop that weird guitar music behind these. Yeah, it's so, it's so sleepy.

[00:54:45] They need like a, and they all talk like this. I feel like everyone on there has a story to tell, but they don't have that. And they're like, I'm not sure if they're like, I'm not sure if they're like, I'm not sure if they're

[00:54:57] like, but they don't have the actual energy to tell it. Nobody laughs. I mean, I've, I listen to it here and there. I do think they have good international stories and stuff. But hello, it's Kathleen Madigan reporting from Istanbul. I mean, it's just so, monotone.

[00:55:18] NPR will no longer post fresh content to its 52 official Twitter feeds. Becoming the first made, they have 52 NPR because I'm sure it's like NPR, New York NPR LA Chicago. The decision by Twitter. Okay. It said that Twitter's decision to first label the network as a state affiliated media.

[00:55:40] He did that on purpose. Don't fall for that. Don't play his game. The same term it uses for propaganda outlets in Russia, China and other autocratic countries. The decision by Twitter last week took the public radio network off guard. When queried by the NPR tech reporter,

[00:55:58] Bobby Allen, Twitter own Elon Musk asked how NPR functioned. Musk allowed that he might have got it wrong. Twitter then revised its label on NPR's account to said government funded media. The newest organization said this is inaccurate and misleading, giving that as a private nonprofit

[00:56:15] country company with the editorial independence, it receives less than 1% of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded corporation for public broadcasting. I didn't know that. I thought they got more from the government. I'll contribute to make one person just talk like they have energy.

[00:56:33] Just zip it up so they quit. He might change their label to publicly funded. Yeah, that's what they are. That's accurate. I just think he gets up and thinks how can I start a fight today and then people fall for it.

[00:56:52] At this point I've lost my faith in the decision making of Twitter. I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again or if you're NPR just get off of it. Be done. I don't know what you're supposed to use.

[00:57:05] Other people have found other things but or don't. Just be NPR. Get your news from NPR. Go back to what it used to be. Sit there and eat Skittles, buy them all. Sit there in your office and eat Skittles. It's fine. Oh my gosh. Okay.

[00:57:25] I'm going to hold these two for next week. Yeah, they're pretty good. This is great. Well this is crazy. A Chinese bowl that's about, it's smaller than a cereal bowl. It was produced at the time of the Yong Zhang Emperor who ruled China from 1770, 1722 to 1735.

[00:57:50] It sold for over $25 million in an auction. What? I'm not kidding. It's smaller than a cereal bowl. Like I don't even know what you'd put in here. I would put ranch dip in it and then invite my relatives over and go look I made appetizers.

[00:58:04] This is pretty good. It's 4.5 inches in diameter. Sold for more than $25 million during a bumper week of Chinese art sales in Hong Kong. Described by Sotheby's, it's highly important. The antique hails from the rare group of ceramics decorated at Beijing's Imperial Workshop in the 18th century.

[00:58:22] It is painted very pretty. It's very delicate. It's like little trees. I mean I think it's very pretty but I would take the knock off version for a hondo. Yeah, I don't need the real one. The bowl was produced at the time of Yong Zhang

[00:58:37] who ruled, it's part of the tradition known as the foreign colors, a name to give porcelain originating from the imperial kilns of Jingzhen. But enameled artesians by, enameled by artesians in Beijing's Forbidden City. 25.3 million. It's an apricot tree and a willow. How peaceful. It's really cute but

[00:59:04] The bowls were split up. There was a pair. They were split up in 1929 when they each were sold for $9,400. The other bowl is in the museum, British Museum of London. Hmm. How was that procured? I don't know how that was procured. One would one would wonder.

[00:59:27] Have you done bad things? Probably. Okay, I'm going to do this and then we're going to have a little feel good story at the end. So, Tupperware. Yes. Here's the great thing. I still have 10 minutes left.

[00:59:46] So I read last week that Tupperware might be on its way to be out of business, which I didn't know it was still in business. I had no idea. But I do remember it as a kid being a big thing. My mom was like, we can't afford Tupperware.

[01:00:02] I'm like yes we can. Stop acting like we live in the hills of West Virginia. Stop it. She loved living on a budget. She just gets off on the challenge of it. Tupperware wasn't that expensive. It's not like I said, do you have a $20 million Chinese bowl?

[01:00:19] We can have dip in mom. It's a fucking plastic thing that will hold lettuce. This is a great story. But then I'm going to tell you on Amazon Prime, where my specialists do, what, what, what? They have a documentary about Tupperware.

[01:00:32] And I don't think I could have been alive as a 1950s woman. I mean the amount of keeping me down on the farm and keeping me brain dead and all those husbands are like, I don't want that little lady stealing anything because

[01:00:45] the minute I'm out you cannot get this cat back in the bag. And they were like, if you can have any wish, the documentary, it's all in the 50s. So there's a guy, Earl Tupper, he invented Tupperware, but he was like socially awkward and stuff.

[01:00:58] So he hired a lady, brownie wise to be the main lady. And she was brownie. Yeah, I don't know. She might have a real name, but that's where she went by. And she was dynamite and she got the whole thing going.

[01:01:10] And then they bought all this land in Florida to have their parties and their retreats. And it does look like you want to go. I mean a lot of it was fun. Like she hid diamonds and mink coats in this field and gave everybody shovels. Yeah. And whatever.

[01:01:25] So that show, if you want a nostalgia thing. But the women, I felt so bad for them because they were like, if you could have any wish on earth, what would you wish? She was like, I would wish that I could keep my lettuce crisper for longer. What?

[01:01:41] Yeah. I feel sorry for that lady because that's how much they've kept you down on the farm. That's as far as your brain is going to work. How do I keep the lettuce not being brown so he doesn't beat a bitch when he gets home from work?

[01:01:55] Holy shit. But this was a great way for housewives to make it out. And then they all said, you know, most of the women didn't have cars, which is true. I remember on my aunt and aunt street, she didn't have a car, Mrs. Cunningham didn't have a car.

[01:02:07] Nobody had a car. Nobody. The husband took the car. We had two cars. As Vicki, you want to go put up with that shit? How's she going to get her cigarettes if she doesn't have a car? Hmm? I'm not supposed to get my cools.

[01:02:21] But you know, a lot of families couldn't afford two cars. So this became their social life to have Tupperware parties. It's a crazy story. It's well worth watching. It's on Amazon Prime. And then we're going to talk about the other.

[01:02:35] I forgot to talk about last week and I promised I would Blackbird the show. Oh my God. So they didn't even file an annual report this year. That's really bad for Tupperware. Meanwhile, the experts have now said the financial missteps,

[01:02:51] the demise of the direct model in the age of e-commerce and the rise of cheap alternatives including reusable containers from food deliveries have all played a role in Tupperware's downfall. But again, it's like beer. Everything has a moment in the sun and you know,

[01:03:06] you either need to adapt or you're going to go away. With the current bleak circumstances, it's almost hard to believe that the brand inspired a cultural phenomenon called Tupperware parties in the 20th century. What's more, the brand also had a fan in the late queen.

[01:03:23] The queen loved Tupperware. Was he like that? Yeah. She said to use her products every day. They had their glory days. In 1946, Earl Tupper from New Hampshire created his first range of kitchenware, polyethylene Tupperware. At the time, the US was still reeling from the Great

[01:03:43] Depression and the chemists wanted to create a product that could help with food waste. An aspiring product developer was inspired by the air site seal and a paint can and used this for the basis of his Wonder Bowl which hit shelves the following year.

[01:03:59] In 1947, House Beautiful reviewed the Wonder Bowl and labeled it fine art for 39 cents. Cool. However, the vacuum seal plastic can was so innovated that shoppers were wary at first and it required demonstrations. What is wrong with America that I have to show you

[01:04:16] how to put a lid on a bowl? Where do we all get confused? I flunk math every year and I understood that. Lid, bowl. I heard the seal. Yay, it worked. Wow, a demonstration. This is a lid on a bowl. Come on, folks.

[01:04:33] According to history.com, confused customers kept returning the airtight lids as they didn't believe they fit. They returned them. That was too tight. In a bid to boost sales, Earl Tupper, he hired divorce secretary Brownie Wise to be his vice president in marketing 1951. Yeah. And she killed it.

[01:04:55] I mean, she killed it. Why do you see this show? She later said I needed the money for me and my kid. She was a divorced wife which back then, back then was kind of kooky and she had a little kid.

[01:05:06] So I got out there and made it happen. It was... You don't need to know all this. I'm not going to go through the whole history, but sadly, I think it's going away. Oh my God, in 2007, the brand was still going strong and even inspired a Broadway musical.

[01:05:23] Really? Tupperware parties. Glamorized dollhouse work. You could only buy it if you knew someone and sold it so it was exclusive and social and about the relationships with other women. Yeah. But then they would let a man, husband and wife be in charge of a distributorship

[01:05:45] so somebody had to run the warehouse and somebody had to get out there and sell it, all that. And these couples back east were like, yeah, my husband said he would quit too. His job was a fireman and they told us to go to Fort Windy, Indiana.

[01:05:58] I never even heard of it. And then I thought we came us, come in the back way because I couldn't find anybody under 100 years old. Then this other couple was like, we didn't even know where St. Louis was. They just started shipping them out there.

[01:06:10] Get out there in America, middle America. Sell some goddamn bowls. Call me when you're done. Wow. I like the square ones. And they had an army of sales women in post-Soviet Russia. It made it to Russia. You're kidding. No. In 1960s it launched in the UK

[01:06:28] and that's when the Queen liked it. An undercover reporter, she said she stored all of her various breakfast series in the brand's container to keep them fresh. What's more, her Majesty's former chef, Darren McGrady, revealed that these weren't the only Tupperware products she owned. Yeah.

[01:06:43] He said, oh, the Queen must... People always say, oh, the Queen must eat off gold plates with gold knives and forth. Yeah, sometimes. But at Balmorrow, she'd eat fruit from a plastic yellow Tupperware container. Yep. And then that got sales going. There's too much competition, though.

[01:07:00] Tupperware is over 75 years old. It grew in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, though. Product innovation and creative innovations solutions for kitchenware. But today there's a significant range of competing products in the marketplace. So there's only so much innovation you can take in food storage. True.

[01:07:18] Yeah, and now you gotta face Rubbermaid, GLAD, ZipLock, and other reusable containers for forwarding. Yeah, I don't know. You're gonna have to think of something totally different. Yeah, that's true. Maybe you could hire Alissa Haydn-Schneed or whatever her name was. Neimanbar. Neimanbar.

[01:07:42] So go on Amazon to watch that. Speaking of what to watch, oh my God. Apple TV Blackbird. I don't know good acting or bad acting, but I know horrible acting and great, at least when I think it is. And then I always have to call Lewis

[01:08:02] who actually knows how to act and all that and go, am I right? This guy who plays Larry, I forget his last name now, Hall, he's suspected of killing over 50 women in the Midwest. A serial killer. And in the show, and it's all true,

[01:08:20] there was this very friendly, seeming affable drug-ruttering guy in prison somewhere in Illinois and they said, we're gonna send you down there. No, he was before. He got moved to Springfield, Missouri and that's where the serial killer, they wanted him to befriend him

[01:08:38] so that he would get a confession because they didn't have a confession. And then he would confess and then he would confess it with all these details and then he'd go, did you believe my stories? And he would do it to Jimmy too.

[01:08:51] He would tell Jimmy all this shit and then Jimmy would be like, dude, that's all like, he would try to get more information than he'd go, Jimmy, those were just stories. But it's the way he talked. Hi, Jimmy. Wait, did you see it?

[01:09:07] I think I have to go rewatch it. It was that good where I was just so stunned because he's so scary without being blatantly scary. He's so good at creepy. And then sometimes he would just space out and go, hey.

[01:09:21] Like, how do you even think to do that? I don't even know how an actor would think of that. Like a Hannibal Lecter thing? Like what? Oh, he's way creepier than Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter. A million times creepier. But he doesn't seem as dangerous, but he is.

[01:09:41] But he doesn't seem like it. And he had mutton chops in real life, those sideburns because he was in Civil War reenactments. Okay, okay. Hi, Jimmy. Jimmy was in the cell next to him. Now I just call my sister and do that. Hi, Jimmy, are you awake?

[01:10:01] It's me, Larry. Hi, Jimmy. So creepy. I highly recommend in succession, I can't believe, I'm not doing a spoiler alert. It's already about out there for days. They killed Brian Tocque's character. My boyfriend, he's gone. I mean, I know it's the last season.

[01:10:20] But I didn't think they'd kill him in episode three. Now I got to put up with these idiot children for the rest of the thing to see what happens to them. And they're all unlikable, you hate them all. I mean, there's not a likable one in the bunch

[01:10:32] where you ain't cheering for anybody. You're hoping that there's a whole giant earthquake or something and they all just get stuck under rubble, they're miserable people. I like Kieran Culkin. Which one is he? Macaulay Culkin? I can't tell any of them apart.

[01:10:49] Right, Macaulay was the one in the show. Yeah, the movie. The Home Alone. But there's another Culkin that's in some things. He's very good at it. They're very good actors. They're all good. The blonde lady is British and you never know it. Her accent's so perfectly American.

[01:11:08] They're all great. The camera works a little bit. Huh? Yeah, it's a very fast paced. I think the people in the writer rooms do one another with snipey, snippy comments. People don't talk like that in real life. Not constantly. You get three of those in a day.

[01:11:26] You did a good job. But then you get, I've seen it in these writers' room and they're all trying to top the intellectually smart, funny thing the last person says and then it just becomes a thing that doesn't even make sense anymore. But hey,

[01:11:38] those are my two TV recommendations and the Tupperware movie if you're into it. It's a very nostalgia thing and just be glad if you're a woman that likes to leave the house that you're alive now. Yeah. And it's mostly white women.

[01:11:54] There's some black women in there but not enough. Like they weren't, no. I don't think they were lobbying real hard on that. They could have done better. Not a lot of minorities. They could have done a lot better because, you know, let them have a crack at it.

[01:12:10] Anyway, we're going to wrap this up with the world's happiest countries. Great. Do you have a guess? Well... The fins are always up there. The fins are number one again. Really? Good for them. Then Denmark, Iceland, Israel, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, You've fallen.

[01:12:42] Luxembourg is nine. New Zealand is 10. Austria is 11. Australia's 12. Canada's 13. Oh, man! Ireland is 14. I think Ireland would be higher. The United States is 15. Well, the whole country's on Prozac. If you're not happy yet, I don't know of anything else for you.

[01:13:02] You've got Prozac and you still can buy Skittles. What's not good about your day? Hmm? Hmm? Oh, peeps. Oh, my mom, you better get up there. Germany is 16. Belgium is 17. Czech Republic is 18. United Kingdom 19. Lithuania 20. Yeah, no. I'm also going to tell you though the saddest ones.

[01:13:26] Yeah, it's a sad list. Oh, wait, it might not be in this article. Here's the lower for happiness. You can't blame them though. Afghanistan. They're on 137th. Lebanon. They're at the low end. 136th. Right. Russia's kind of put a little dent in Ukraine's happiness. Really? Yeah.

[01:13:52] Did anybody even go over to ask them, were you happy? Right. Somebody just yells fire and the tank fires at you just for asking that question. I'm going to tell you how you can win a trip to Finland before we go here.

[01:14:06] Did you know that Finland is not one of the Nordic countries? Finland is not one of the Nordic countries. I did know that. It's more Russian. And because I had a neighbor in my apartment in LA and he was from Sweden, really from Sweden, not like American,

[01:14:20] Nicky's from there and all he would do is talk shit about the Finns. And I'm like, dude, I'm not on board with this racism because I don't even know what you're talking about. You're delivering, he was like, they're stupid, they don't understand what you're talking about.

[01:14:36] They're really good. They're really good. I mean, I don't even know I remember Louis Anderson used to have a joke. He goes, my father because they're from Minnesota and Louis family was Swedish. He goes, my father used to be racist against races that nobody even cared

[01:14:54] about. Like he would say, Louis, just remember we hate nor we gins. It was so Minnesota and I was like, I'm not going to be racist. I'm not going to be racist. I left every single time and I can't even I'm going to have to go

[01:15:10] look up the rest of the joke. But anyway, you can win a trip. It's giving away trips to Finland. Finland has been named the happiest country in the world again. Yes. Finland continues to occupy the spot for the sixth year in a row.

[01:15:26] I could not be the happiest person on earth here because it's too dark and I'm not going to be the happiest person on earth. No renaud syndrome. Yeah. Finland continues to it's significantly ahead of other countries, but there's no national secret behind Finnish

[01:15:44] happiness said highly human as a senior director at the government organization business of business Finland. It's a skill that can be learned. Okay. Right. Like I tell my mom, you get happy in the same shoes you got sat in turn your frown upside down.

[01:16:00] I'm going to go back to the history of Finland. Finland is giving away free trips to Finland for a four day master class and finished philosophy in life balance Finland's first master class of happiness will be held from June 12th to 15th at the Kuru resort, a luxury

[01:16:16] lakeside retreat in southern Finland. Okay. Well, I could go in June according to visit Finland expert covers coaches will cover these four themes in four days. When you're at the gym. It's a great day, you can get into the gym as a senior director

[01:16:32] and it will be a great day to get into the gym as a senior director and be a senior director. There are a lot of people in Finland who are not here today and they're working with the American government to open this type of community.

[01:16:46] I'm sure that's a great opportunity for them to get into these events. It's not right, but happy fins that want to enter the contest, then you need to save your fin. Yep. Those who are not chosen to attend in person need not worry. According to the

[01:17:03] country's tourism authority, Visit Finland, adding that the masterclass will be available online later this summer. She's often asked why fins are so happy for her. It stems from a close relationship with nature and our down-to-earth lifestyle. The Finnish CEO of customer feedback company, Happy or Not, Mika,

[01:17:20] Mika Lato agrees. We nurture our work-life balance. See, when you say work-life balance, you already ruined my happiness because you said work. Yeah. No. Benefiting from our proximity to nature. But he also said the concept of

[01:17:40] sisu. It's in quotes, I don't know what that means, plays an important role. Finns have a philosophy called sisu, an automation of perseverance, resilience, and keeping problems in perspective. Sisu defines our national character and is recognizable and accepted a concept to fins as the American

[01:17:58] dream might be to residents of the USA. Extraordinary determination in the face of extreme adversity. Extraordinary determination in the face of extreme what? Diversity. Indiversity. Oh, he said the word has no English equivalent. But it involves pushing one's own boundaries and approaching seemingly

[01:18:13] insurmountable challenges head on. I'm not really interested in that. Some license plates. Well, I don't want any insurmountable challenges. Like you throw a challenge flag at me, like a French bulldog, I just go, that was stupid. You just threw your thing on the ground and I walk away.

[01:18:36] This certainly, this philosophy certainly underpins our national happiness and sense of purpose. It keeps our spirits high. Yeah, because it's too dark and you're going to get sad. I'd have to get one of those things. My Aunt Peggy has one, the sunlight deals for winter. It looks like

[01:18:51] an old mirror. It looks like an old mirror. God, I can't think of the day with those things that it just sends out light. A light mirror is what it is. Well, I well, like these except they're way brighter and to get you out

[01:19:06] of the depression of all the coldness of those places and the darkness they go dark like 20 hours a day. Tan. Yeah, my aunt's all did that. Tan in front of a light. Yeah, you tan in front of a light.

[01:19:18] I'll just burn your face up. Everybody's got skin cancer now. Yeah. All right, termites. Now where are we going? Just making sure I didn't forget anything. I don't think I did this time. Good for me. Going to Durham this weekend. Two shows one Friday, one Saturday.

[01:19:37] What are you doing in Durham? In Durham, I'm going to go get Calarone, Carolina barbecue all the time. Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Then I'm going to Niceville, Florida, which we all know is right through Mainville. You go through Mainville. It's by Destin. I know where it's at.

[01:19:56] And then I'm going to Ponte Verde, Florida. Two shows I think they're sold out though. Charleston is definitely sold out. Santa Rosa. I think we sold like 1700 but I think there's like 1850. So you can get, yep. Hard Rock Casino, Wheatland. I never know what's going on in

[01:20:11] casinos and then Vegas and uh, please go rate the Amazon special. Please rate the pubcast, especially the special. I don't even know. Well, you're getting yelled at about the pubcast. Who can yell at me about this pubcast? It's free. It's my work. I make the

[01:20:27] decisions. Okay. They said rate it. No, I would like people to rate it because then, you know, at some point, I would like to maybe make $5. You gotta cover your expenses. These lights ain't free bitches. I think my Amazon guy thinks that like,

[01:20:48] I'm shooting porn's and everything because I got some more lights for you, Kathleen. I'm like, thanks. We're good. Those other ones I bought were all fucked up and I'm too lazy to package them back up. So they're just going

[01:21:00] to sit upstairs. This is where I need a child. I need one of the children because I already put these things up. They're on, I almost called it a totem pole. They're on tripods. Yeah. So if you could rate the Amazon special and the pubcast

[01:21:26] and also we got the t-shirts on the website, the short sleeve ones are close to sold out. I don't know how many left and then we're going to have a hat, but I'm not going to tell you what's on the hat next week. Next week?

[01:21:38] All right. Termites. I have to take all this stuff downstairs and then I have to I have a secret show Wednesday, but I'm not saying where. Yeah. I'm just part of one. No, it's yeah. It's no big deal, but it'll be a fun thing.

[01:21:55] Some of my old buddies will be there. Okay. That's all I got. Termites. You were now springtime termites, even though it's still flipping cold everywhere I go. It won't be in Durham. I looked it up. It's going to be 80. It's great.

[01:22:11] Be springtime termites. Get out there, get some sun. It's almost fishing time. If you're in fishing. Ice fishing. Well, I see these guys out here in Bassboats on Saturdays and I think they decided they were going fishing on Saturday and Nekamela High Water.

[01:22:23] They're going and the water is still freezing. I don't know what you're fishing for, but Nekamela High Water will be bad. No. All right, Termites. That's all I got.